by Arkady Martine | Apr 11, 2017 | Fiction
“Ruin Marble” – Illustration by Anju Shah. Medium: White glass marking pencil on black pastel sheet. Spring was late. Two, three weeks at least: April already and every tree barren, scoured and hesitant with the memory of snowbanks. The sorcerer...
by Arkady Martine | Apr 1, 2016 | Interviews
Arkady Martine in conversation with Salik Shah: You describe yourself as a “peripatetic scholar-poet: constructed of equal parts SFF and Byzantine history.” Your characters seem to want to belong to the past. They are wanderers who always return “home” even when it is...
by Arkady Martine | Apr 1, 2016 | Poetry
Abandon Normal Instruments Arkady Martine There isn’t any such thing as you. (And now there really isn’t.) You protean exile! All narrative, all trick. All abnegation of humanity. A succession of images – apophantic messiah! alien traveler! – encompassing...
